SCIENTIFIC WORK IN ANTARCTIC
Co-ordination By Mr P. M. Smith
The man who will co-
ordinate all the scientific work done in the Antarctic this season arrived in Christchurch yesterday make last-minute preparations for the flight to McMurdo Sound tonight. He is Mr P. M. Smith, who for the next six months will be the National Science Foundation's senior representative in Antarctica. Mr Smith knows the Antarctic well for he has been there each season since 1956, except last season. As an Army officer Mr Smith was a member of the party which broke the trail from Little to Byrd Station. In his swond season he took part in-glaciological investigations at Camp Michigan on the, Ross Ice Shelf, and in the 1958-59 season was in the Antarctic when the' I.G.Y. work ended and the United States Antarctic research programme began." Early in 1960 Mr Smith was aboard the U.S.S. Glacier on its voyage into the Bellingshausen Sea. Yesterday Mr Smith . attended a conference at Harewood between the superintendent of the Antarctic Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr G. W. Markham), the Scott base leader (Mr A. Roberts), and American ’scientific and logistic specialists.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29623, 20 September 1961, Page 22
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